[Veritas-bu] Failed job notifications

It's a shell script so the >, <, & = don't work as numeric comparitors.  It
uses the old Fortran formats:

-gt is "greater than"
-lt is "less than"
-ge is "greater than or equal"
-le is "less than or equal"
-eq is "equal to"

If you want to compare two strings, the the "=" sign is used.

so, your comparison should be changed to:

if [ $5 -gt 1 ]
then
  cat .....
fi


You might try something like this as more readable and uses less I/O to your
hard drive (the "EOF" at the bottom must start in column 1):

if [ $5 -gt 1 ]
then

cat<<EOF|mail -s "<big subject line>" rmajor AT vericenter DOT com
----------------------------------------
-- Date: `date` --
----------------------------------------
       CLIENT:  $1
       POLICY:  $2
     SCHEDULE:  $3
SCHEDULE TYPE:  $4
       STATUS:  $5
       STREAM:  $6
----------------------------------------

ERROR: $5
`/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror -S $5`
----------------------------------------
EOF

fi


This could be your entire backup_exit_notify file and it should work OK.

-M
-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Major, Rusty
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:46 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Failed job notifications


I'm trying to get notifications on job failures ONLY and have added the
following to backup_exit_notify:

if [ $5 > 1 ]
then
        cat $OUTF | mail -s "Backup of $1, Policy $2, Schedule $3 exited EC
$5" rmajor AT vericenter DOT com    
fi

What I'm getting is an email for EVERY job in the following format:

Thu Nov 10 10:28:42 EST 2005 -----------------------------
Thu Nov 10 10:28:42 EST 2005 CLIENT: clientname
Thu Nov 10 10:28:42 EST 2005 POLICY: policyname
Thu Nov 10 10:28:43 EST 2005 SCHEDULE: Incremental
Thu Nov 10 10:28:43 EST 2005 SCHEDULE TYPE: INCR
Thu Nov 10 10:28:43 EST 2005 STATUS: 0
Thu Nov 10 10:28:43 EST 2005 STREAM: 0
Thu Nov 10 10:28:43 EST 2005 -----------------------------

I have received a few with the subject line, but the large majority do not
have it. I will admit I am not a perl guru (or unix for that matter) and
copied this from an older entry in the archives. I would appreciate any
help!

Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP
Data Assurance Engineer
(281) 584-4693
VeriCenter, Inc.